Wow. You guys are fast! I can wget the file every hour. What do you think? Can you send me a fixed link? On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can now generate a .png file once every hour. Danny, how do I go > about sending it to your server? > > I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all who have extended their > support and encouragement, including code suggestions. > > Special thanks to Mr. fooler, to took the trouble to write a bash > script, which worked ok. (Send me private mail if you want to know > the details.) I used some ideas from the script, but I had to add lots > of other code. Since I am much more comfortable with python, that's > what I eventually used. > > I also had to make a choice between gnuplot and matplotlib. Mr. > fooler's gnuplot script worked nicely and gave me ideas. But when I > needed to make changes, I was getting all kinds of problems. (This is > my first try to use plotting software in this fashion.) So I also > tried matplotlib. I was initially stuck with problems in both, but I > finally made a breakthrough in matplotlib, so that's what I ended up > using. This was probably more about problems with me than with the > programs themselves. I would have preferred gnuplot because it is > faster and smaller. Maybe, if I were not so pressed for time, I could > go back and make things work in gnuplot too. > > So in the end, I used wget and matplotlib with python tying everything > together. > > I'm still trying to work out how to use python to upload a .png file > and accompanying caption to an fb page. Any suggestions would be > welcome. > > If you want to see the graph, please check the Switch Off #NoBrownout > page on FB. > > By the way, my piece about the whole campaign was published yesterday, > Easter Sunday, at the Talk of the Town Section of the Phil Daily > Inquirer (Apr. 5, 2015). (Google Brownout-Free Summer via Bayanihan) > > Greetings to all, > > Obet > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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